Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-05
THE LABOR REVOLT.
LITTLE IMPROVEMENT IN THE SITUATION
AT NEW YORK.
Green Hands Working Bsttsr-BOsbn K. Of L
Threaten to Come Out TO-Day-fhe Miners
Strike - Trouble Probable With
ChicagO Printers-IR General.

NEW YORK, February 4.-There was 4
slight improvement in the condition of af-
fairs on the river front this morning The
steamship companies are slowly recover
ing from the stagnation to the business that
the strike at first caused, and are moving
freight with more dispatch than on any OF
the past four or five days Nowhere is this
more noticeable than on the East river front
Most of the steamers are being got away
Oh their regular sailing days and the freight
! lines are once more receiving and deliver
| ing goods. In most cases the work on the
steamer piers is being done by green men
and on the freight line by the deck hands
of the freight boats. The tramp steamers
are being discharged and loaded by their
own crews, assisted by Italian or other
non-union labor.
The steamer Niagara is being loaded to-
day and will be ready to sail on time to.
morrow. There are about twenty old
hands at work on this dock. They were
given the advance of 40 cents for day work
and 90 cents for night work. At the
Bristol line dock the steamer Warwick
was discharging with her own crew and
fifty Italians The regular men did not
put in an appearance when the boat ar
rived. The Alamo, of the Mallory line, is
still at the bulkhead. When she will be
ready to sail no one can tell, but an effort
will be made TO get ker cargo in by to-
morrow. The City of San Antonio and
the Lampasas are also dOcked waiting TO be
discharged.
The White Star steamship Republic and
Cunard Line steamship City Of Chicago,
scheduled to sail to-day with the Transat-
lantic mails, were not able TO get OIL be-
cause OF the strike.
In an editorial on the strike, in the
Standard, Henry George says: 81 think it
fight in the dark, the blind push of men
squeezed past endurance. | think it the
first passive form Of civil woRs-Xlich
steel clad forts and armOr plated ships
cannot guard us against-the kindling of
passions and the arraying of forces that
reused to full energy, may give cities TO
the flames and destroy our very civilza-
tiOn itself"
President COrbin, of the Reading Rail
road, was seen by a reporter this morning,
and asked if the reports were correct that
all negotiations tending toward arbitration
of the great strike were OFF. Mr.. Corbin
answered that the efforts to bring about n
settlement were not abandoned, but also
said there was M change in the situation
The police line the piers on West and South
streets, aud detectives are about the imme-
diate vicinity of the large ocean steamship
piers, ready TO prevent any attack upon
non-union men going to and from work.
1t is not believed that there will he any
outbreak while there is chance for arbi-
tratiOn.
The brakcmen, freight handlers, train
men, switchmen, conductors, trackmen
and tiremen are organized to man, and
their representatives have been clamoring
loudly for this action for some time past,
This step in the case OF the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad was taken becatlse
it has been the principal coal carrying
road to the Eastern and interior States,
and it has openly defied any action which
the Knights might take TO cripple it. This
is the first Of Il series of cOups TO bring the
trouble To decisive point and the officers
of District 40 have more surprises for the
public which they will enforce in a few
days
"No stone will be left unturned to win
the great strike. Nothing that can aid TO
that end will be overlooked"